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Baggage wagon

Part of the collection: Vehicles and harnesses

Popularization note

A baggage wagon is a passenger and cargo vehicle drawn by four horses. It was produced around the middle of the 19th century in Vienna. The Łańcut baggage wagon is one of the two wagons in Europe kept in the former magnate coach houses. The passenger and baggage wagons, such as the Łańcut one, were vehicles intended to transport luggage, but were also used as a means of transport for personal servants in the 19th century. Therefore, behind the coachman's box, the Łańcut wagon has a two-person chaise for the servants. The chaise, with a comfortable, soft seat and a hood with windows and pockets for small items in side walls, has folded stairs. Even though it is not as luxurious as an enclosed coach, it was equipped in a mode to make the travelling comfortable and not to expose the travellers to rain or cold. A mobile, multi-panel window, which was assembled at the top and side edges of the hood forms a part of the chaise. It covered the travellers to the waist; below, they were protected by a leather apron. Thanks to such solution, the servants travelling in the wagon were isolated from snow, rain and wind. In the back section, behind the chaise, the wagon was provided with a huge rectangular chest made of wood, closed at the back with two-winged doors, where smaller luggage was transported. Furthermore, by the upper side corners, the chest had hooks, where more trunks could be attached. Aldona Cholewianka-Kruszyńska

Information about the object

Information about this object

Other names

luggage van

Author / creator

Oehler

Dimensions

height: 250 cm, width: 185 cm

Object type

Vehicles and harnesses

Technique

installation

Material

leather, metal, wood, corduroy

Origin / acquisition method

decyzja administracyjna

Creation / finding place

powstanie: Vienna (Europe, Austria)

Owner

Castle Museum in Łańcut

Identification number

S.4555MŁ

Location / status

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